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¥ * TRIWEEKLY. VOL. TIL AMERICUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING MARCH 17, 1882. NO. 107. jUumCUjS |UcaVtln\ MRS. M. E. RaINES Great Germ Destroyer PUBLISHED 11T OFFICE OX COTTON AVEXI E, Su."toserlpti03a. Rates: Tri-Weekly One Yeah, - $4.00, Weekly One Year, - - $2.00. Sunday Issue One Year, - $1.50. ROFESSIOML A-lilSI.\ESS CARDS Prophylactic Fluid! n. B. HINTON. J. C. MATHEWS. HINTON & MATHEWS; ATTORNEYS AT LAW Will practice in nil the counties of thl* Jud total Circuit, nlao in Dooly county, in the Supreme Jotirf of too State of Geortna, and the DUtrint Court ot' the United States, and in nil other c< t>y special contract. Uftlco m Hawkins’ new bnildim,', Lamar Street, •luly t’ith, \Y. H. K1MBROUH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LEESBURGH, - - GEORGIA. Collections a Specialty. W. .1. SKAUH, W. 1>. SEARS. Dll. IV..I. SEARS &,m ELLAVILLE, GA. lu.vli,*. C. R. McCRORY, .Attorney at Law, ELLAVILLE, Ga. Collections a Specialty. April’.&tf i)rs. Westbrook & Joiner, Physicians ami Surgeons, ANDERSONVILLE, : : GEORGIA, Offlco at Drug Store of W. XL Clark. MaylS-ly “H.‘ C. GARDNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OGLETUORPE. GA., W ILL practles In Ihc 8outli-vrr.t.rn Circuit mi,I tlio O'llolnlngcount!.,. Prompt •It™, lion slv.n to collection.. mnylO.lf Iiawson F. Collier, Attorney-at-Law —AND- Itenl Estate A Kent. DliA YTON, GJiOltaiA. Ixl Twenty thousand ncroa of wild land for aalo In IkHily County. LOANS OF MONEY Will lx* negotiated on five year* time, on Ini- ptoved Farms !».• U II. Nelson, Atlanta Ga., In HUiiin o| Three Hundred Dollars utid upward*. I am njreiit for the counties of Macon, Dooly ami Schley. All applications from those counties must be made through me. 1 am now prepared to receive and forward applications promptly Call >r.Jdr M .m..tMoo,.. u m i ^O.. wK(;i(a Montezuma, Fehrnary 14lh, 1884. THE MIX HUM Hlill ASHES. The flneatlflniahed, moat pleasant wearing nn elegant BOOTH AND) SHOES made. I he beat repairing done in thd most nul>»tanli«l and artistic style, and till on reasonable terms. Refers to every gentleman in Americua. Call on me a at tny new shop in front of Col. N. A. Smith a of Gee, yn Jackson Street, Amerlcaa, Ga. ANDREW DUDLEY. JnneW.tf Toys, Dolls, ' ' Vases, Smoking Sta Toilet Sets, Wash Boxes, Wbiting Desks. Handkerchief Boxes, Glove Boxes, Necklaces, Bracelets, Statuess. Cups and Saucers, Mi :os, Pitchers, Teasets, Teasets, Wagons, Trains, Stoves, Darning Runs, Harmonious, Horses, Cats, Duos, Guns, Pistols, Balls, Marat.es, Toys, nnd everything topless, imtl elm MU 111. little ones on Hint most mysterious nn,: hnppiest day of the ymr when the spirit- nni nndstempoml seem to mrel. Let nil who nre in senreh of Christians presents for old or young be sure to cnll on Van Riper HAS RETURNED! His Photograph Gallery NOW OPEN ! FINEST PICTURES, LATEST STYLES and ALL SIZES. Satisfaction Guaranteed Prices Moderate Pitting or Small Fox Prevented.. Ulcer* purified and healed. Gangrene prevented and , ... .. viuw. HV...W rapidly, and made pleasant. Seurvey cured In abort eahed by bathing ith ProphylutlcKluia added to tlio water. 8oft white complexions secured by it* uao In bathing. Impu 1 •* air made harm- * d purified by *- - LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, THE 13TII. The Overflow. Hprlnblii.fr Darby* Fluid about. To purify the breath* cleanse tbe teeth, it can’t be surpaaaed. Catarrh relieved and cured. Erysipelas cured. Burns relieved instant ly* Hears prevented. Removes all unplensont IHPTHERIA Prevented. Cholera dissipated. "hip Fcv It* use. 8hip Fever prevented by ■SCARLET FEVER CURED. In cases of death in the home, it should al ways be used about tbe corpse—it will prevent any unpleas ant smell. An antidote for animal or vegetable poisons, stings, etc. Dangetot sick r«> pital* Yellow f. effluvia* of md hon ed by lb In fact it In the grcHt Disinfectant and Purifier! PKEPAKKD 1IY J. II. ZBZiXZia d) CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Sole Proprietor: OYKIt T. WIIKATI.KY'8 STORE, Americus, Georgia. Loans of Money I Will bo negotiated on yplvo Tears’ Time! on imprevod firms In Sumter and Webstercoun- ties, by L, U. Nelson, Atlanta, Ga., in sums of Three Hundred Dollars nnd upward. All.uppli- ration* must bo tnndo through J. B. FELDER, fcbS.lm AMKHICUb, GA. FieMPeas and Brick: I still have on hand eorne Field l’ea*, nnd a f i-w oft hose good llrlck, ut my residence. Call on , J. R. Gatewood. WANTED 3STOW. l*rof. VAN RIPER. sep24-wtwtf JEWELER, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SPLENDID S'rO.TK OF FLtch.es and •Jewelry Of the Latest Designs All Repair Work PROMPTLY DONE. J. E. Sullivan HAIL, WIKI) AM) WEATHER. Ed. Brown's Old Stand. URSERY&H, SHA OPENED A GENERAL Supply Grocery —AND- CON FECTIONERY ! Though late in the season, choice goods and fair dealing will tell. Come and see us. M. H. Ford <6 Co., —i THE CASH MERCHANTS,|— LAMAR S7'„ AMUli/CUS, OA., HAVE ON HAND A COMPLETE STOCK FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERIES!! BARLOW HOUSE 1 W. 1I.CLAY, Proprietor, ■WtUX’ay Onsh. Hi T. BYRD ic CO. l»n2u.wtwHni _ ^ Dwelling House for Rent, lliog house on Church street ....enient outhouses and ft gitod Good trult, and convenient.t«» I Americus, Ga. Tills hout-e ha* undergone nn entire change hav lug be«a newly and neatly ARCHITECT 13' R E A M ,»r,*parp*l In furui-h Dctall|.Drs*in|l an fill I Sp.%11ir.tlu,,, UUBBN ANNi: AND EAST LAKE any oth-r of the mo.lrrn ilylea, «o ma-MW ■ tut. and tour pocket. K. 4. SLOAN, Airklfid. -PITBEST AND REST ^INES AXI) CHAMPAGNE, GINGEU ALE AND SPARKLING CIDER. Flush Assortment of fjONFECTIOKT yANSTEX) GOOD BEST BRANDS OF The river at New Orleans re mains stationary at ten inches be low the rise of 1874. It is suppos ed that the greatest danger is over, as the levees are being repaired. A special from Helana Ark., says the river has lowed an inch. Rations for 9(i0 persons were is sued yesterday. The river at Vicksburg yester day rose eight inches, the flood of wa’tlr from Yazoo Valley having reached that point. Arrangements are being made to distribute lf>0,- 000 government rations. The dam •age to railroads lias been repaired, and trains will run us usual. At Jackson, Miss., the reports from overflowed districts received to-day by Gov. Lowery nre most unfavorable, nnd show great dis tress and suffering. The Gover nor leaves to-morrow for the scene of the trouble to render nil aid possible. HELP FOR TIIK SUFFER KBS. The Secretary of War lias sent the following telegram to Commis sioners Gillis and Schack, at New Orleans: “Your telegram of the lllh received. Thu present appro* priAtiou is nearly exhausted, so that the department cannot place 500,000 rations at your disposal now. An additional appropriation is possible. In the meantime tele graph me from time to time the numbor of rations needed, and the number of people being relieved as your necessities require, and the department will endeaver to com ply'” COskl.INO’s AND EDMONDS’ LETTKI1H OF DECLINATION. Washington, March 13.—The following letters were made public to-day. No 2!) Nasp.au street, New York, March 3, ■ 1382.—Mr.-'"’ President: Absence prevented a prompt ac knowledgment of ypur two .esteem ed letters, which were found here awaiting my return from Uticn. Th*» high.and unexpected • honor you proffer by selecting me as as sociate justice of the Supreme Court o( the United States is great ly valued. It will ever he a mat ter of prido and satisfaction that you and the Senate deemed roc lit for so grave and exalted a trust. But for reasons which you would not fail to appreciate, I um con strained to decline. Although ur gent demands on my time just now prevent my accepting your cordial invitation’to pass a few days with you in Washington, let me hold this as plensure deferred but not lost. I have tbe honor to be your obedient servant, Rohcoe Conkji.nu. To his excellency,tho President. Senate Chamber, Wu shiny Ion, March 0, 1832—Mr. President: I have received through tho Sec retary of State your very flatter ing oiler of tho appointment of as sociate justice of the Supreme Court. I thank you sincerely for this highly valued proof of your good opinion, but I feel, for rea sons that I have expressed to Mr. Frcelinguysen, that I ought not to occupy it. I shall cherish this mark of your kindness and good opinion, though I did not need this proof ol it, us one of the most pleasant oPmy life. I am sir, very faithfully yours, Geo. F. Edmunds. Hi Massachusetts Avenue March 11, 1882.—Mr. President: I am deeply touched at the manifest consideration you have shown me in connection with the associate justiceship, hut further reflection luts not enabled me to change the 8 ! views I expressed to Mr. Frcling- : nysen. With the sincere hope tlmt j you have experienced no cmlinr- | rassment from the delay your kind- ness lias caused, I am faithfully yours, Geo. F. Edmunds. RIOT IN NORTH CAROLINA. At Third Creek, N. C., fully one hundred whites a.iil negroes were ngaged in riot caused by u negro attacking a while man. Troops went to the scene and arrested ! many of the participants. ANNIVERSARY. • The anniversary of the death of UEI’BESENTVTIVF, BLACK’S CONDITION. Representative Itlack, of Geor gia, who was taken ill a day or two ago, is no better to-night, aiidjhis physicians regard his condition with much anxiety. Representative George R. Black, of Georgia, is not expected to live through the afternoon. TUESDAY- TIIE FLOODS. Gen. Beckwith, of the commiss- ary department, who lias charged of the distribution of government rations trom St. Louis to the flood ed districts of the Lower Missis sippi, hns received the following dispatches from Capt. J. S. Land, dated Memphis: “I have just arrived hero. I found Pemiscot county, Mo., in a distressing condition,being almost entirely submerged, ami about 1,- 000 people entirely destitute. The supplies sent to Gayuzo are being carefully distributed and will Inst until about March 25. More should bo sent there. The people, will bo In just ns bad condition when the water goesdown. The government, to prevent starvation, should care for them nt least until May 1st. About Ally people are destitute at Hathaway, Tonn., 150 at iTiptnn- villc, 200 at Hale’s Points in Ten nessee, 500 at Bayfield Point; nnd 1,500 in the vicinity of Osceola, Arkansas, arc destitute anil badly in want. Some stores have been received at Osceola, but they arc insufficient.” General Beekwitli has also re ceived the following from Captain Lee, dated Memphis: “I returned here on Saturday night. My dispatch of tho flth inst. falls short of representing tlio actual destitution and tlio magni tilde of this overflow. If an addi tional appropriation is made 500,- 000 rations of meal and meat should he sent hero as soon ns pos sible, in largo installments, for the sufferers in the Stato of Mississippi. This is in nddition to any rations that may not yet be sent from tlio Ilrst appropriation. The destitu tion is gcnurnl anil increasing, nnd there arc 9,000 destitute persons in Bolivar county alouc. My esti mate will carry tho sufferers through to tho 10th of April, and possibly the flood may subside by tlint time so that the sufferers enn begin work.” Capt. Lee lias been directed by Gen. Beekwitli to take charge ol the little steamer Anita, which loft here yesterday, and proceed at once on the mission designated for her— the pickings up of parties of desti tute people in the flooded districts and taking them to dry land nnd shelter, where they can he comfort ably oared for. Hon. George W. McCranic, of the Ouchitn Telegraph sends the following to tho Times-Democrat from Monroe, La.: “The situation here is extremely critical. A visit to the levees above and below this afternoon showed that they are in great danger, though a large force of men is ut work on them. There is not five inches to spare. The water is oozing through tlio levees in many places. The river here is six feet higher than its natural bank, and more than ten feet higher than the rear of tlio city, where tlio over- in a most alarming manner. The air is thick with the fumes of tar. Twenty barrels are burning at as many different points. Special po licemen are sworn in to compel the strictest quarantine, and the lire department is on duty constantly. Nearly all the eases are in an unex- ceptionablv clean part of the town, and nearly all the cases bad not been vaccinated. TRAIN WRECKERS. A regularly organized band of train wreckers is operating in Kan- -, sas. Last evening a rail was re moved from the Gulfand Colorado and Santa Fc track fifty miles south of Fort Worth, on a high bank, and an express train going at the rate of twenty-live miles per hour passed over the ties striking the track all right in front of the removed rail. The villians attempt ed to wreck a train on the Texas Central road, near Palmer, last Thursday. A RARE COIN. At the sale of rare coins yester day nt Clinton Hall, in New York, the interest of bidders centered in a silver half dollar issued from the mint of thu Confederate States at New Oilcans in 1801. It is assert ed to lie one of four. Of the three other coins one was said to bo in the possession of Jefferson Davis at tho time of his capture. It has not since been heard of. Tho coin offered yesterday was sent to Dr. B. F. Taylor, chief coiner of the Confederate States, and was ob tained by Mr. Scott from him. The bidding was started at $200 and bids ol ten dollars readily jumped the figures to $870, at whioh price it was sold to “South.” No deal- cr knows who “South” is. The agent who bought it said that be could not reveal his name. MOONSHINER KILLED. This morning in Atlanta Jack Hicks, an illicit distiller, of Gwin nett county, resisted arrest and was fired upon by a party of raid ers. bended by Deputy Marshal Holton, and was killed, STEAMSHIP BULLETIN. Arrived in Savannah from New York steamship City ot Augusta, at 3:45 p. in.; from Baltimore, steamship Win. Liiwrence At 3:30 p. m. FIRE IN BUTTS COUNTY. Tie stores of Carmichael & Mo. Michael, drugs, of Forsyth, Mar tin L. Duke, general store, and one other wore burned at Jackson,- Butts county, about 10 o’clock last night. The strike at Omaha still contin ues. The military, yesterday, charged a crowd of strikers, wounding several men with their bayonets nnd killing a machinist named E. P. Armstrong. The French Senate lias adopted a compulsory education bill. 0«cr 100,000 porsons in tho Mississippi Yalloy are homeless nnd destitute in consequence oftho floods. The heaviest snow storm of the season prevailed yesterday in Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Western Texas. At Jacksonville, Oregon, yester day, a mob in attempting to rescue a prisoner, killed Doputy Sheriff Lewis. The Chilian newspapers are abus ing the United States, ridiculing flow is higher than in 1874, and is 0 ur navy, and publishing cartoons -•:ii ... ... *. still rising. Tho river is rising at the rate of one inch in twelve hours. A bout from Camden reports a rise nil the way down the river which is only three and half inches below the rise of 1874. Nearly all of which represent our war vessels being destroyed by the Chilian fleet. — Near Charlotte, N. C., Miss Sal- lie M. Moore was assaulted Sunday on her way to church by a negro Trenton is under water, and in j boy, who knocked her down and some places it is three feet deep. ! cut her throat. She may recover. Business is suspended, and the Ex-Prcsidcnt Hayes is one of roads arc impassable. Commmii- j the incorporators of a new bank to cation is being carried on entirely j I*. Parted in Fremont, Ohio, by water. Planting along the river Twenty men waylaid J. M. Da- S i 1,,,n j ok atla | wen mRAfinn ANTI f!TflAT?S! the Czar was celebrated to-day in iUHALUU AINU OiUrAAfc 1 s p etcr8 |, UM at tho cathedral of has been suspended, and stock arc huddled together, many dying from starvation and the buffalo gnat. Ti.e situation is worse now than before known for twenty years. Rain is threatened to-day, and should it conic Monroe, the highest point on thu cast bank of the Ouiuchitn river, will lie in evitably submerged. The condi tion of the country is truly alarm ing.” SMALL-POX. Telegrams from South Betide-, hem this morning state that over ! one hundred cases of virulent small- ! Soabron Feagin, j (HoccPMor to J. U. Ooviugton.) I FASHIONABLE BAKBEIt, j t both AJJre*- ft-Lls.liui j UNDER T. WHEATLEY > ! SIIAR1* RAZORS! ON TIIK CORN KB. ATTKNTIVK IIFLP! We pay cash for all our goods and can J offer you AN INDUCEMENT!! St. Petersburg at tlio cathedral ol St. Peter and St. Paul. mtICKK VS. BAYONETS. At Omalm, Neb., the militia m the city to protest non-striking la borers were aflnoyed by a gather ing of a moli who threw bricks, i 'the militia finally charged and TJm. i -lfovc them away. celebrated raider of moon shiners near McMinnville, Tenn., yesterday, and killed him. The contested election cases from Mississippi and South Caro lina will come up some time next week. The letters of Conkling and Ed munds declining a seat on the, Su preme licnch have been published and turn out to be mild, courteous and devoid of any bitterness. The Senate yesterday continued Hon. William L. Scruggs, of Geor gia, to lie consul at Panama. Maj. Thos. n. Hays, of Louis ville, lias made an assignment. James M. Butt, a hardware mer- pox have developed since Sunday, and the excitement aroused yes- , „.. , „ •„ ,. terday continues unabated. On | c ' l ! l, 1 1 1 t Norfolk, Va., was killed by Saturday but three very light cas- j a yesterday. . es were known to the health nil-; '• * • •' thorities. On Sunday within live j Always Refreshing hours fourteen houses wero qunr- j \ delicious odor is imparted by aiHined, and by Sunday n.ght lif- j Floreston Cologne, which is always ty cases suddenly broke out. This refreshing, no matter how freely morning the coses are increasing | used.